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Comment by Nichoo

Comment by FinnrSlayer

What the heck is this for?

Comment by Veeria

Likely just some random files that's datamined or something.

Comment by Tehbantha

The sprawling Borean Tundra lies at the far southwestern tip of Northrend, the icy continent also known as the roof of the world. In recent months the Horde has established a dominant presence here as the young and daringly aggressive Garrosh Hellscream has founded the rugged orc fortress of Warsong Hold.

Shortly upon arriving, the Horde met the tuskarr, a walrus-like race of nomadic fishermen. The two groups have since formed a bond, and the Horde has sworn to aid their new allies in any way possible. Garrosh and his orc forces have also discovered the enigmatic taunka, an ancient offshoot of the tauren race that up until now had been thought lost forever.

Beyond the Westrift Valley, which separates the tundra from the mountainous region of Coldarra, explorers have recently witnessed increased activity at a magical site known as the Nexus. Nestled within the valley of Coldarra, the Nexus is a column of magical energy surrounded by levitating earth-covered rings. This ancient site was created by the blue dragonflight, and many adventurers attribute the increased activity here to the reemergence of the blue Dragon Aspect, Malygos. Inhabitants of the region have also noted an increased tension among members of the blue dragonflight, especially regarding the use of magic.

The Alliance has established a smaller presence here as well, and as both factions prepare to launch an offensive against the Lich King and his undead armies, they must first address the more immediate threat: the naga. The sinister serpentine race is using massive generators to melt the surrounding glaciers and ice caps, threatening to flood the entire region.

The Alliance and Horde have journeyed from far and wide to reach Northrend. Yet for these intrepid pioneers, the true challenges still lie ahead.

Comment by Gbasp05

With all these maps i made a really ugly beta map of the beginning of northrend

Comment by Arterdras

Well done. Looks a bit green to be a frozen wasteland, but I guess blizzard will pull out some reason for that...

Comment by yagerbomb

you can choose to quest here or howli g fjord once you reach 68 the 2 zones each have a quest that gives a blue quality gear rewards the quest in this zone gives you the choice of some weapans also thier should be different factions in each zone

Comment by roby10

Located in the far western edge of Northrend, the Borean Tundra (pronounced BOHR-ian, not boh-REHH-an) is the home of the Tuskarr. Drakkari trolls, blue dragons, the Undead Scourge, and naga also inhabit the zone. Important landmarks of the region include the Tuskarr capital of Kaskala and the Riplash Ruins. Coldarra is an island just off the coast.

Most of the Borean Tundra is empty ice. Tuskarr are the dominant presence in the Borean Tundra. However, they keep near their villages, and one can go for days without seeing another living creature. Tuskarr mainly care about fishing, whaling and protecting their villages. Tuskarr will fend off hungry Drakkari, and even fight wayward nerubians, and are formidable foes; but they never attack anyone without a good reason. Drakkari wander the tundra, but not in any significant numbers, most are content to roam alone or in small packs. They have no city in the tundra, but live in several camps, none big enough to have names. They harass the tuskarr from time to time, but every time the tuskarr gather their forces and send the Drakkari running. Nerubians wander about as well, but only in small packs. Naga live near the south end, in the Riplash Ruins. Sometimes blue dragons from Coldarra also fly over the tundra from time to time. Scourge creatures, lone scouts straggle over from the lake area.

The Borean Tundra is not an important part of Northrend. It’s too isolated and too barren to be desirable and has too much shoreline to be defensible. Tuskarr like it because of that expansive shore, and the Riplash Ruins gives the naga a perfect view of anyone approaching across the ocean from the south. Drakkari hunt here because they can and because the tundra provides little cover for wildlife. Most others stay well away, preferring the forested areas to the east.

Borean Tundra contains bases of both factions, and won't have an emphasis for a specific faction.There will be a port between Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord that uses a giant turtle with a deck on its back as a quick means to travel between the 2 starting zones.There will be a murloc faction that opens up after some quests for D.E.H.T.A. The murlocs can actually talk and repair your equipment. They also have quests against an infected camp across the cove

Comment by ihatethealliance

how do you get 2 warsong hold?with the zepplin in org that you cant reach?

Comment by Mumpley

Urmmmm....

Blizz is adding a new zeppelin tower to the outside of Orgrimmar.

As where the zeppelin tower is in Warsong Hold,im not sure.

Comment by danielsjoberg14

what will be YOUR starting zone? /points at you

Comment by tehMurloc

According to WoWWiki, the flightpaths on the Borean Tundra are as following:

Alliance:

Fizzcrank Airstrip

Valiance Keep

Horde:

Bor'gorok Outpost

Taunka'le Village

Warsong Hold

Neutral:

Amber Ledge

Transitus Shield

Unu'pe

Comment by Almarsguides

Horde arrive in this zone in Warsong Hold. (It's the Orgrimmar Zeppelin that takes you here)

Alliance arrive in this zone in Valiance Keep. (I'm pretty sure it's the Stormwind harbor that brings you here.

This zone actually has more horde quests then alliance. (If you look the alliance achievement takes 130 quests, the horde one takes 150).

Comment by fosticpopcorn

The map is missing one or two questgivers that hand out quests to both factions. For example, Glrglrglr and Lurgglbr in the Winterfin Cavern (near King Mrgl-Mrgl) both have quests - one is an escort.

Comment by Quest

This is basically the Zangarmarsh of Northrend.

Comment by Dannyt

this is 70-73 so is howling fjord to spread out the leveling spree. im gunna level my warlock here and my dk in the fjord

Comment by Grazy

A good zone for starting out in Northrend. Good rare quests rewards, for any class/spec.

Comment by acranos

just curious this is this zone better than Howling Fjord for Death Knights because they offer more 2 handed axes and such? just a thought

Comment by nodions

How to go on Coldarra?

Comment by Arlique

Access to Borean Tundra:

A Horde airship from a new tower west of Orgrimmar city gates goes to Warsong Hold in Borean Tundra

An Alliance ship from the new Harbor District in north Stormwind City goes to Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra

To get to Coldarra, do the few quests at Amber Ledge and you will get the flight path. (or get summoned)

Comment by rellex

You get to the island Coldarra by going to Amber Ledge. Once there you will see a Green ! on your map representing a Red Dragon Flight Master. Get his flight path, and you will also automatically recieve the flight path for his smaller counterpart on the island of Coldarra.

Keep in mind that on live, there are few if any guards currently on Coldarra, significantly increasing your chances to be ganked.

Comment by Apotheosis

I just spent four hours on my main in this zone today, and I'm not very pleased with how sporadic it is. It has breadcrumb quests that lead you to a few major quest hubs, but at the same time it completley ignores other large quest hubs like D.H.E.T.A.

These quest hubs also happen to be in the middle of nowhere because much of the zone is very open and on the plain side of detail, so things have quickly gotten out of hand in terms of PvP due to the ease of ambushes and lack of safe terroritory for either faction.

Try to stick to your faction town quest lines when there's a lot of PvP activity, and do the neutral stuff when things quiet down more.

Comment by zivadira

Call it whining if you want but I really dont get why there are 7 Horde flight points in Borean Tundra + Howling Fjord while there are only 5 for Alliance. In any other zone in Northrend the number is equal...

Comment by Unknowing

Call it whining if you want but I really dont get why there are 7 Horde flight points in Borean Tundra + Howling Fjord while there are only 5 for Alliance. In any other zone in Northrend the number is equal...

Probablly due to the fact that the horde has more quests in the Borean Tundra. Or I would assume we have more considering our achievement, Nothing Boring about Borean requires horde to complete 20 more quests than alliance.

And I do agree with the following comment...

These (D.H.E.T.A ) quest hubs also happen to be in the middle of nowhere because much of the zone is very open and on the plain side of detail, so things have quickly gotten out of hand in terms of PvP due to the ease of ambushes and lack of safe terroritory for either faction.

Try to stick to your faction town quest lines when there's a lot of PvP activity, and do the neutral stuff when things quiet down more.

Which has been downgraded. I am on a pvp server. It is great to see and be involved in pvp all the time. But at the same time, if you are trying to grind, make yourself less of a target if you are going to be one of the whiners on the trade channel.

All in all its a great zone, alot of fun and a great intro to Northrend.

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Comment by Abomb

i was on my 70 druid and i was trying to decide between going hear or the fjord, i noticed that this place looked more horde oriented so i went fjord and now i and 74 after questing through the dragonblight but my friend who lvled hear says its was better for the allince i was wondering which is best?

Comment by moenbase

Check the quest rewards section.Some areas here can be pretty nasty and cloth-unfriendly. My mage died here a couple of times. Some respawns are just way too fast, while others are awfully bad.My protection warrior breezed through all of the quests quite easily.The quest rewards for tanking classes (pre-heroics outland geared) is lacking. Most items have spellpower, a lot of critical, and some basic attributes.

So for healing and spellcaster classes this area is pretty nice to get gear.

The questhubs are pretty easy to find as well and their objectives are pretty much straightforward and nearby to complete.

Comment by shonen

Is it wise to go there at lvl 68? I'm 2 lvls away and rather fed up with Outland. Same goes for HF

Comment by Ibetrayer

This zone is available at 68, and you can start questing here. I personally would recommend that you get to 69/70 before you start in Tundra, as it will make questing easier (especially for clothies) and you will be able to hit 73/74, and move on to Dragonblight a lot faster than if you have to grind up from 68.

Comment by kostada

According to the quest log, Coldarra has quests under it's own tab instead of a Borean Tundra tag. This most likely means Coldarra was meant to be it's own zone, but they just made it under Borean Tundra.

Comment by kostada

@ Abomb's comment, actually doing both of them was effective for my hunter. He's 73 right now and is done with Howling but not done with Borean.

Comment by ezechiel

note that the mobs here are yielding more experience than in Outland, aprox +50 - +60%.e.g., a lvl 70 mob in Outland yields ~1200 XP, while in Northrend dies for ~1900 XP.

Comment by stevebat

as with outlands northrend is the better place to level at 68 but i suggest hitting howling fjord till 69 the quests there are lowbie friendly

Comment by Razzorblade

If you ever come back here on a flying mount, do not try to fly to the floating zigurat at the Temple City of En'Kilah, the second you flying into the bottom end, you will be dismounted and fall to your death :)

Comment by SuperMaster

I've created few Flight paths for this zone and click the following link to view it:

Comment by jaffy

If you're an Engineer, be sure to bring your Arclight Spanner - you can dismantle the dead robots, stripping them of some tasty parts.

Comment by Ramsay

The word 'Borean' is a reference to Boreas, the greek god of the cold northern winds.

Comment by sebelas

im currently a lvl 68 holy priest and i am going to level to 70 here in the tundra by killing as many mobs around the beach. each killing gives 2K XP, thats far better than in the outlands. I start questing when im level 70. Hope that there are some nice drops while killing all those mobs hehe

Comment by Khalaas

It might or might not be a direct reference, but I think Temple City of En'kilah obtained its name from King Enkil, the vampire from Anne Rice's books. Looks kind of symbolic with a blood-drinking darkfallen Prince ruling over it.

Comment by Chumonster

Quick dialoge between Saurfang and Garrosh,Saurfang:I am not speaking of soley children im talking about our enemies...Saurfang pauses.Saurfang: I wont let you take that dark path again young garrosh, If you do ill kill you myself before that day comesGarrosh: How can you managed to survive so long, Saurfang?Not a victim to our memories?Saurfang:I dont eat porkSaurfang spits

Comment by Meggie

A 'horde zone', but the horde quests start in a pitch black environment at the base of the fortress. It gets better after this. The horde gets a few easy blue items, available to the alliance only by group quests.

Leveling 68 to 72 is very doable. With some rested XP one can hit 73.

In this zone one can level skinning to 450 and leather working to 400.

Like I say when I entered in Northrend and leveled up in this zone those days I was just thinking "I think I've already heard this this part of the song somewhere else" until I finally remembered where did I heard this before.

Comment by FdGaara

Okay i just started to lvl up in NR and i saw all these links everywhere but couldnt find a good cobalt deposit guide so i just made one with pin point locations of Cobalt Nodes all over Borean Tundra.

Comment by camperito

Bravo, nice job, start quest useful to make achiev, of misions

Comment by DELCholo71796

Also interesting to note on the origin of the name:The aurora borealis (northern lights) occurs both in-game and in real word at northern latitudes. Borean Tundra is in Northrend and starts with Borean like Borealis. This is just speculation, of course; and there is no way to confirm it other than asking the person who chose the name.----About a year and a half has passed since I wrote this comment. "Borean" is a different way of saying boreal, so it's very likely just a coincidence.

Comment by Ragolabron

What kind of cool hunter pets currently are here? more specifically are there any wolves, or other things other than (moths and rhino's are all i've seen) <---------------------- because i dont want a rhino or moth cuz they dont eat meat (i have a huge stock from my last pet)

Comment by junfiguer

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Comment by Aquaholic

If you are trying to decide between whether to start in Borean Tundra or Howling Fjord, pick Borean. From my experience the quest rewards are much better in Borean, BUT.....don't skip Howling Fjord. Do yourself a favor and either run Borean first them Howling Fjord or come back to Howling Fjord later, the quests are pretty funny and a a lot of fun.

Comment by Danderdapally

all that i have to say is when in Coldarra stay low to the ground on your flying mounts

Comment by tbonci

If you're questing in this zone, remember to grab these critters for the /love achievements.

Comment by bdaldo

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Comment by bdaldo

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Comment by hisleetness

The tiger lily in this zone seems to respawn very fast, more so then in other zones so if you want some herbs this place is great for it. They respawned in about 1 minute for me so if you just stay around and kill stuff for a bit more will be there. This was the case last time I was there so if Blizzard has changed it tell me.

Comment by Takata

I suggest for everyone to try to get cold weather flying before coming here. Although it does cost 500 gold. But that's half the price of what it originally was. It makes many quests as well as traveling around this area much easier.

Comment by Mallefix

They probably named the giant crater Coldarra because it is a caldera.

Comment by Ottius

Gnome questline is the most irritating one in WotLK.

Comment by wowhedi

Anyone knows what does D.E.H.T.A stands for? XD

Comment by Goodwinn

The MapID of Borean Tundra is 486. This is used for any WoW API function that requires a MapID.

For example, to set your current map to Borean Tundra you can type:

/run SetMapByID(486)

Comment by Goodwinn

Don't forget to pick up these "This Item Begins A Quest" items while in Borean Tundra...

Comment by Boxofbeer

Comment by Musician2111

Coords for the DEHTA camp are 57 / 44. A major quest hub if you want to do all of the Borean Tundra Zone

Comment by tgwilt

I looked all over the Borean Tundra for an NPC to repair armor and weapons. Finally found Brom Bomblast, a general goods vendor in the training grounds area. I can't remember the coordinates right now, but I think they are close to 57.08,63.7.

Borean Tundra

Borean Tundra is one of the two initial zones players are expected to quest in when first reaching Northrend. It is located in western Northrend with the frigid island of Coldarra off the coast. Borean Tundra is mostly ice, punctuated by grasslands. It is occupied by many factions: the Alliance (based in Valiance Keep), the Horde (based in Warsong Hold), D.E.H.T.A protesting the slaughter of animals, the peaceful Tuskarr driven away from their coastal lands, nerubians and Prince Valanar to the North, the Kirin Tor assisting the dragonflights in Coldarra, and the mysterious taunka, an ancient branch of the Tauren.